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According to security services, a Dutch chemist is suspected to have been involved with the banned weapons program of Saddam Hussein. It is the 60 year old Frans van A. from Den Helder. This was reported by the newspaper 'De Telegraaf' on Saturday. Van A. is probebly hiding in Baghdad, heavily guarded by the Iraqi Republican Guards. He has been under surveillance by the Dutch security service AIVD for several years. According to the AIVD, it is an 'unique situation', because Van A. is one of the few foreigners that has intensive contacts to the regime of Saddam Hussein. Also...

Helder was aiming to form 'smiley face' UW-Stout student tells officer of pattern to targets Associated Press Last Updated: May 9, 2002 Reno, Nev - The 21-year-old Wisconsin college student accused of putting pipe bombs in mailboxes in five states told authorities he was trying to make a "smiley face" pattern on the map with his targets, a sheriff said Thursday. The first 16 bombs were arranged in two circles, one in Illinois and Iowa and the other in Nebraska. On a map, the circles could resemble the eyes of the 1970s happiness symbol. The final two bombs, found in...

The Badger Herald received a letter from pipe bomb suspect and UW-Stout junior Luke John Helder postmarked Omaha, Neb., Friday, May 3, 2002. The Herald turned the letter over to the FBI Tuesday afternoon. Click here to see text of letter. Click here to see the actual letter. The FBI took Helder into custody at 6:55 p.m. CST about 90 miles northeast of Reno for his connection with recent pipe bombings in mailboxes throughout the rural Midwest. Police surrounded him in Nevada at 6 p.m. Tuesday before arresting him after he dropped a gun out of his car window. At...

Web posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 5:10 a.m. CT The Associated Press SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A suspected pipe bomb was found in the parking lot of a San Antonio apartment complex on Tuesday, but authorities say they don't believe it was part of a series of similar devices found recently in Amarillo and four other states. A paper bag with a fuse sticking out was discovered by a resident of the Timbercreek Apartments at about 9 a.m., said Sgt. Gabe Trevino, a spokesman for the San Antonio Police Department. "It was very apparent that it was some sort of...

Here's the URL. Check it out while it is still available. I think you can even download a "song" from the suspect, though I haven't done that. Apparently this guy is a Nirvana fan. http://artists4.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/Apathy_MN/index-0.html